note 90373 added to function.opendir

A couple of notes on Matt's posts on Windows Network Drives: Since the system() command writes the output of the executed shell command straight to the output buffer, if you wish to hide the return of the mapping command (i.e. "The command completed succesfully" or an error message) from a web browser, you need to alter the command that is sent to the shell so that the output of that command is hidden. You probably thinking "why not just use exec()?", and it's a reasonable question, but for some reason it doesn't always work - I guess it's another NT user permissions issue. If you want to guarantee you app will work with no messing around on the host system, use the system() command. In the Windows command shell, you can hide the output of a command by sending both the output (1) and error (2) messages to "nul" using pipes, in other words ">nul 2>&1" on the end of the command. The username and password order in the "net use..." command needs switching in Matt's post. Here (http://networkm.co.uk/static/drive.html) is a function I wrote to dynamically choose which drive letter to use, based on what is currently mapped and accessible to PHP. <?php // Define the parameters for the shell command $location = "\\servername\sharename"; $user = "USERNAME"; $pass = "PASSWORD"; $letter = "Z"; // Map the drive system("net use ".$letter.": \"".$location."\" ".$pass." /user:".$user." /persistent:no>nul 2>&1"); // Open the directory $dir = opendir($letter.":/an/example/path") ... ?> ---- Server IP: 92.48.74.199 Probable Submitter: 87.127.188.153 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90373 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90373 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90373 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php